PREFATORY NOTE
Battle of the Somme. Then some chapters containing hints of that passion for France which was one of the great passions of his life. One of these, entitled "The New France," was written before the war had made the world realise that France is still the triumphant flag-bearer of European civilisation. Then, in "The Gospel of the Devil," we have an examination of the armed philosophies that have laid so much of France and the rest of Europe desolate. The book closes with "Trade or Honour?"—an appeal to the Allies to preserve high and disinterested motives in ending the war as in beginning it, and to turn a deaf ear to those political hucksters to whom gain means more than freedom. Thus "The Ways of War" is a book, not only of patriotism, but of international idealism. Above all, it is a passionate human document—the "apologia pro vita sua" of a soldier who died for freedom.
Many of the chapters in this book have already appeared in various newspapers and magazines, to the editors and proprietors of which thanks are due for permission to reprint them here. The sources of the chapters referred to are as follows—
| "Under the Heel of the Hun" | Daily News. | |
| "Zur Erinnerung" | ||
| "The Way to the Trenches" | ||
| "G.H.Q." | ||
| "Belgium in Time of Peace": Freeman's Journal. | ||
| "The New France": Irish Ecclesiastical Record. | ||
| "The Soldier-Priests of France": The Hibernian Journal. | ||
| "The Gospel of the Devil": T. P.'s War Journal. | ||
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